Open research, scholarship and learning resources
Michael Gallagher I had written about the availability of academic research and data for developing nations in my former guise as an information professional years ago; after revisiting that post, I thought…
ICT4D as revenue generator: complications in serving the underserved
Reading through Alex Deng’s recent article “To Really Help the Global Poor, Create Technology They’ll Pay For”, I was conflicted. While I support many of the basic assumptions of the…
Academic and Applied Identities: Exclusion and Overlap
Academic vs. Applied: The Twain Met I recently (as in about 7 months ago) started a small consulting organization with like-minded colleagues focusing on mobile and ICT for development (#M4D…
Reflection and sanctuary post-writing: idiosyncratic practices to get my head on straight
Elation, euphoria, and exhaustion: music for (post) e-learning by Elektronicheslernenmuzik on Mixcloud This post is merely an excuse to demonstrate that writing, the actual action of putting text to document…
Repositioning mlearning and open learning
I am beginning to realize that I am bit enamored with redefining or repositioning strands of learning that I hold dear. I am also realizing that I am beginning to…
MERS mobile surveillance in Korea as extension of social practice: some takeaways for the development community
Apologies for the absence in writing but most of my efforts have been directed towards creating a small consulting company (LLC to be exact), Panoply Digital, and so I wanted…
Aesthetic Literacy: EURODL Paper and Helsinki Workshop
I have just arrived back to Seoul from Helsinki and wanted to share a new article from Pekka Ihanainen and I on aesthetic literacy and its pedagogical application for mobile…